"There was a time before Sept. 11 when I could jaywalk down Sixth Street and blend in with the locals," said Abdullah, 38. "I was colorless, stripped of ethnicity, even faceless at times. The day after 9/11, I woke up to a new America –– the one where we were no longer regarded as locals but outsiders and lumped together with the fundamentalists."
Her second book, "Saffron Dreams," tells the story of Arissa, a Pakistani writer who is widowed when her husband, Faizan, dies during the Sept. 11 attacks. He worked at a restaurant in one of the World Trade Center towers, Windows on the World. The book was published in February and made the local bestseller list compiled by the Arboretum Barnes & Noble in the spring....................
Austin author Shaila Abdullah's "Saffron Dreams"
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